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Discussions: Flat or Threaded? (2006)
Clay Shirky's classic articles on social software should be required reading for all software developers working on web applications. As near as I can tell, that's pretty much every developer these days. But I somehow missed Joel Spolsky's related 2003 article on social software, Building Communities With Software.* It's an
Although I recently accused Joel of jumping the shark, his scathing criticism of Usenet, Slashdot, and IRC is right on the money. ThreadedFlat Two of the oldest and most popular discussion boards on the web, phpBB and vBulletin, avoid threaded views. Unlike Joel, I don't have total recall of the last five posts I just read; judicious use of a few contextual quotes helps me keep the rest of the conversation in my brain.
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